[Osmf-talk] Updated membership prerequisites plan

[Roland Olbricht]

Hi Simon,

Thank you for the multiple and substantiated replies.

> Well, all of the above would seem to go counter to the what the
> membership actually decided, and second, doesn't seem to offer the
> option of telling the board that the whole thing is a terrible idea and
> should not be implemented in the 1st place (which was implicit in the
> original decision).

Could you please elaborate on why you think this "is a terrible idea"?
I'm aware that I'm fallible and it is absolutely possible that I've
overseen a flaw.

Based on
https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meetings/2020/Suggested_resolutions#Vote_3:_Work_on_membership_prerequisites
By the way, thank you for providing the link.

Has there been to little communication with the membership working group
(MWG)?

Are you unhappy with the absence of a path to OSMF membership without
ever mapping at all? It turned out on discussing various examples of
real persons that the low threshold of mapping days has been a good
predictor whether the other non-mapping OSM activities have substance or
not, or could not even be verified to exist.

Are you missing the resolution for the general meeting? Basically
because we don't know if the approach works and finds general acclaim,
this is installed in a way that it can be reversed rather quickly for
the moment being. We may have a resolution on the next AGM in half a
year, and anyway then have experience whether it works.

 > the problem is that you are simply not offering the
 > membership any alternative to the path the board has decided to go down
 > on a very controversial matter.

Again, I'm sorry, I have no idea on what you mean here. In my
perspective we are running an experiment and collecting data at the
moment, not making a decision. If we were facing a pile of rejected
not-yet-members then it would be indeed a decision to never let those
people reapply. I'm not aware of any.

This mail is my personal opinion, not the statement of the board.

Roland

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